Question: Why Do Republicans Hate Renewable Energy?

Answer: Because the Koch brothers hate renewable energy.

‘It’s an example of Ohio returning to the Dark Ages’

05/29/14 12:45 PM
By Steve Benen

Like most states, Ohio has sensible requirements that require power companies to generate some of their electricity through renewable sources of energy like solar and/or wind power. The goal is to position the state to generate a quarter of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2025.

Soon, Ohio’s Republican governor will make these rules and goals go away, at least until 2017.

Gov. John Kasich plans to sign a controversial pullback on renewable-energy rules that passed the Ohio House yesterday. […]

The bill passed the House 53-38, overcoming opposition from nearly all Democrats and some Republicans who said the measure will lead to job losses and an increase in air pollution. Soon after, the Senate voted to accept minor changes that the House had made to the bill, which sends it to the governor.​

The measure doesn’t completely eliminate Ohio’s renewable energy rules; it just renders them meaningless for a couple of years, at which point policymakers will presumably take another look. The severity of the climate crisis will only get worse in the interim, though that apparently isn’t alarming to the new policy’s proponents.

Defending the energy standards he helped create while in office, former Gov. Ted Strickland (D) told Bloomberg News, “It’s an example of Ohio returning to the Dark Ages.”

Did I mention that the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity helped champion the proposal? It did.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s editorial board added that the soon-to-be-approved bill “is more than a simple freeze; the bill also will chill what have been burgeoning alternative-energy investments in a state, and during a governorship, that aims to create Ohio jobs.”

What’s more, note that Ohio is breaking new ground – of the dozens of states with renewable energy standards, the Buckeye State is poised to become the first to move backwards. (Kansas very nearly did the same thing, though as Rachel reported earlier this month, the bill ended up failing.)

State Rep. Robert Hagan (D) concluded in a statement, “As the rest of the country is moving forward on energy efficiency and independence, Ohio is moving backward. Reversing our Renewable Portfolio Standards is completely irrational, and unfortunately Ohio consumers and businesses are the victims of the absurdity.”

 

So you are saying that the Koch brother own Ohio? They are richer than I (and they themselves) thought they were. BTW, that means they must out do Tom by trillions.

 

You don't have to actually own a state, you simply have to own those people in power in the state. The Koch brothers clearly own the Republicans in Ohio. See the difference?

 

Oh, I got what you are trying to say before you said it except now you have to come back to reality. Show me a single instance of what you are saying. On the other hand, Tom has publicly announced that he is doing the opposite - in multiple cases.

 

I don't want you to have to read too much so here is the gist....
Efforts to roll back requirements have stalled in Kansas and other states, despite a push from groups such as Americans for Prosperity, which is backed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who control the industrial conglomerate Koch Industries Inc., and the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization that advances business interests in state legislatures.

How about 30?

There were about 30 unsuccessful bills in 17 states last year to reduce or eliminate standards, according to the NCSL.

 

No, idiot. Show me a single case of their paying a legislator to vote a specific way. And make sure you have proof of both payment and vote.

 

I am totally into solar. My RV can go endless on 750 watts of solar , when not in use the powers stores in golf cart batteries. I only use a generator for the air.

 

You certainly are one naive idiot.

 

So you simply start a rumor and have no proof. Typical liberal you expect the innuendo to damage the other side so no one believes them.

 

Are you also excited about solar roadways?

 

You mean like Benghazi I suppose.

 

Do you care to know why neither BO nor Hillary ordered help sent during the 7 hours our people were being slaughtered in Benghazi?

 

See, silly rumors and innuendo. The military already confirmed that there wasn't enough time to save anyone. So why would I want to know the answer to a question that I already know?

 

In a new report released on Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee concludes that there was no way for the U.S. military to have responded in time to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya to save the four Americans killed that night. In doing so, the report debunks entirely a right-wing myth that says the White House ordered the military not to intervene.

So they should have gone on a pointless mission possibly getting other Americans killed to make the crazies in the GOP feel better. OK!

 

How, in the first hour, could anyone have known whether or not there would be time? You can get virtually anywhere in the world in 7 hours these days!

 

Again, your cartoonish, Rambo inspired view of reality is the basis for your partisan curiosity. Nothing more. Then it simply creeps into innuendo and silly speculation.
I can wonder all day why you live in ass crack central a.k.a. Kentucky but the reality is probably that no one told you that you could leave any time you wanted.

 

WOW, can you change topics when you have no facts to support your case. Here was you original point;

What does that have to do with Benghazi?

 

Absolutely nothing. He gets all his talking points from socialist Bernie Sanders and most of the time he gets confused between one talking point and another. Any moment now, he'll begin his talking points about Bernie's accusations regarding the Koch Brothers and the VA scandal...

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Could be that the infrastructure to produce the required mandated amount of renewable energy is behind schedule and they are just taking steps to prevent a future energy shortage. It was a 53 to 38 vote

 

I didn't change the subject one iota. I made an analogy based on your whining. You do know what an analogy is right?

All the actual facts still support my argument.